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When glibc guys changed memcpy implementation which changed its undefined behavior, it broke Flash Player and Linus got pissed off. Afair they reverted the chan
by deniska 13y ago
When glibc guys changed memcpy implementation which changed its undefined behavior, it broke Flash Player and Linus got pissed off. Afair they reverted the change.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129
- cesarb 13y agoIIRC, they later used symbol versioning so that only newly compiled programs get the real memcpy. Older programs get a fake memcpy which simply calls memmove, which is what Flash should have been calling instead of memcpy.